The Political and Social Economy of Sex Selection: Exploring Family Development Linkages.

Abstract

This is a study of the adverse child sex ratio (CSR) conducted during 2015–17, and builds on existing research on the subject, especially the study conducted by John et al. (2008) which investigated the adverse child sex ratio in five districts of north west India in the wake of the Census 2001 findings on CSRs. The sites of the study are entirely urban, in the towns of Rohtak and Jhajjar in Haryana, and Shirur and Beed in Maharashtra. Haryana is known for its long history of adverse CSRs while Maharashtra has received renewed attention after Census 2011 showed further declines.